Stephen Schneider gave the Orange Coast College baseball team a
second consecutive game-winning solo home run to edge visiting Irvine
Valley, 12-11, Thursday in Orange Empire Conference play.
Luke Beck stole third in the ninth inning and came home on the
errant throw to third, tying it at 11, and setting the stage for
Schneider. With a 3-and-0 count, he sent reliever Grant Harrell's
pitch over the right-field fence for the victory. Beck also provided
the game-winning homer against Saddleback Tuesday.
Beck finished 4 for 5 at the plate for the Pirates (19-13-1,
10-5-1 in the OEC) Thursday, a career-best outing with three doubles,
three runs scored and two RBIs. Matt Meadows was 2 for 4 with a
two-run home run and four RBIs in his first start in nearly two
months after sitting out with a fractured leg.
Area players moving on
* TENNIS: Corona del Mar High senior Wesley Miller, as well as CdM
senior partners Matt Chou and Spencer Reitz, won first- and
second-round matches, respectively, in the CIF boys singles and
doubles divisions Thursday, four of several victories for
Newport-Mesa players in various divisions who advanced in the 105th
annual Ojai Valley tennis tournament.
Miller defeated Jenson Turner of Campbell Hall, 6-2, 6-2, in the
first round, before handling Michael Eraso of Sunny Hills, 6-1, 6-4,
in the second round.
Miller competes in the Round of 16 today at 8 a.m. at Thatcher
School. If victorious, he would play in the quarterfinals, scheduled
for 12:30 p.m.
Chou and Reitz knocked off Rashid Rahman and Daniel Sagaf from
Taft High, 6-1, 6-1, before defeating Alok Chandick and Alan Estareja
from Redlands, 6-4, 6-1.
They advance to today's Round of 16, also at Thatcher School.
In girls 18s singles, Newport Harbor High junior Megan McKay won
twice, the latter a victory against Evelyn Wallace of Costa Mesa,
6-2, 6-4, to reach today's Round of 16 against Olivia Colman of Los
Angeles at 11 a.m. today at Thatcher School.
Newport Harbor sophomore Jake Fleming downed Costa Mesa resident
Charlie Alvarado, 6-1, 6-1, to reach the Round of 16 in boys 16s
singles, where he faces Nicolas Patonai at 9:30 a.m. today at
Nordhoff High.
Corona del Mar freshman Alexandra Walters downed Sutton Anderson
of Breckenridge, Colo., 6-0, 6-1, to advance to today's Round of 16
in girls 16s singles. Walters faces Brooklyn resident Gail Brandsky
at 8 a.m. at Villanova School.
Newport Beach's Parker Rhodes defeated Costa Mesa's Charlie Corum,
6-0, 6-0, in the Round of 32 in boys 14s singles and faces Clay
